REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951

Acknowledgments
First, to Lioy May, that "good old horse'n wagon," who worked so hard
on these surveys. Next, to Robert Littell and William Cragin Lewis, whose
intelligent editorial discrimination helped reduce some 1,900 case histories,
hundreds of newspaper stories and thousands of readers' letters to the
compass of this book.
To Charles Huckins of Hux Cuts, and to Henry R. Diamond for the
fine dust jacket drawings, and to Post Photoengraving Co., especially photographer
Phil Gordon, and etcher Bill Lambert.
To Bill Riis, for letting me redesign and republish.
To Sol Cantor and his fine crew at The Composing Room, Inc., for new
typesetting and to Louie Bloom of Berkeley for more of the same, but
mostly for the loan of a linotype machine to the author, who set most of
these lines himself. And for still more bits of special type setting, to Wallace
Kibbee and L. F. Deckard.
To tough old Doubleday, who, to avoid more trouble with Patric, sold
the plates of the unillustrated first edition, from which the text not the
front matter nor the final pages was printed, at salvage prices. To Steve
Johnson and Kingsport Press, for new electros.
To Ralph Clark, without whose painstaking artistic craftsmanship I
should never have attempted this new edition. All the drawings here are his
except for a few American Typefounders' ornaments, and some illustrations
taken from the jacket drawing.
To Eddie Boland and to Bud Whitaker, of The Berkeley Engraving
Company, for many of the photoengravings used in this edition.
To Moore's Truck Terminal, and Johnson-Hilliard, for invaluable trailer-parking
privileges making possible an office-on-the-job. To The Ailing
& Cory Company, paper merchants, for many a kindness.
To Angelo Albanese, Henry Dodson, Joe Brancaccio, Phil Tamburino of
Russo's in New York, for many a useful photostat. To patient Phil Kirchner,
for the drawings from which Becker Bros, made the cover stamping dies.
To the entire staff of Kingsport Press in Kingsport, Tennessee, for the
fine job of book manufacture they have promised.
FRYING PAN CREEK
Florence, Oregon^
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